Chapter 5 Psyc

What term describes the continuation of a visual sensation after removal of the stimulus?

Afterimage

Petra walks into a brightly lit Psychology lab to participate in an experiment involving the ability to perceive the colors of the rainbow. Which photoreceptors will be most useful during this experiment?

Cones

Ravon was born deaf, so he is diagnosed with ________ deafness.

Congenital

Ronaldo was born without the ability to experience pain, though he can perceive temperature differences and changes in pressure. What is his condition called?

Congenital Analgesia

When light level are low, the pupil will become _____ to allow more light to enter the eye.

Dilated

Which of the following exemplifies the sense of audition?

Hearing a song on the radio

What is described by the concept of perception?

How sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced

What concept is illustrated by the following study? Participants were instructed to focus on either white or black objects, disregarding the other color. When a red cross passed across the screen, about one third of the subjects did not notice it.

Inattentional Blindness

The ______ is also known as the anvil.

Incus

Which part of the eye holds eye color?

Iris

Which term describes the perception of the body's movement through space?

Kinesthesia

Longer wavelengths will have ______ frequencies, and shorter wavelengths will have ______ frequencies.

Lower; higher

Our vestibular sense contributes to our ability to ________.

Maintain balance and body posture

Derek wants to win the student of the year award so badly that when the name of the award winner is announced, he is convinced that he hears his name. He stands up and begins to leave the aisle when his friend grabs his hand. Someone else won the award. This illustrates how ________can affect perception.

Motivation

Which of the following is false about sensation?

Sensation refers to the way sensory information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced.

What should be changed to make the following sentence true? "The central tenet of Gestalt psychology is that the pattern is different from the sum of its parts.

The word "pattern" should be changed to the word "whole"

Vinnie is standing on one leg with his arms in the air. The ________ sense helps keep him balanced so he has less chance of falling over.

Vestibular

__________- frequency sound waves are perceived as high-pitch sounds, while __________- frequency sound waves are perceived as low-pitched sounds.

high; low

Which of the following describes the difference in stimuli required to detect a difference between the stimuli?

just noticeable

Within the visible spectrum, our experience of red is associated with _________.

longer wavelengths

What kind of processing is exemplified by the following scenario? Shimon offers Mouin some salmon. Mouin thinks, "How nice. My friend is offering me fish. I wonder where he got it." This thought leads Mouin to feel happy, appreciative, and curious; he responds with a smile and an extended hand.

top-down

What is a binaural cue?

two-eared cue to localize sound

Which of the following statements about olfactory receptors is false?

They are bulb-like structures at the tip of the frontal lobe where the olfactory nerves begin.

What has research by Goolkasian & Woodbury (2010) demonstrated about pattern perception?

Those who are given verbal priming produce a biased interpretation of complex ambiguous figures.

Read the following two sentences. (1) Gre eng rass gr ow son themoun tain. (2) Green grass grows on the mountain. How does the principle of proximity explain why the second sentence makes sense immediately, but the first sentence does not?

We group letters of a given word together because there are no spaces between the letters, and we perceive words because there are spaces between each word.